St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-27
RAISED A BIG RUMPUS.
Father McGolrick's Sermon Creates Excite
ment Among Catholic Saloon
keepers.
Discussions in the Church Predicted if the
Mundane and Celestial Are
Mixed.
Brother Satterlee Fires a Charge of
Grape and Canister Into High
License,
sofa to Submit a Prohibitory
Amendment.

The GLOBE publishes all the news. On
Monday morning these columns contained
an abstract of the sermon of Rev. James
McGolrick, in which he severely scored the
saloon men of the city, and especially those
| of them who were Catholics The GLOBE
| was the only paper to get this sermon, but
! it was copied into all of the papers of Min
neapolis and st. Paul and has caused con-
siderable ferment. Father McGOlricll has
always been very ardent and OutSpoken in
regard to the liquor question, and has won
! for himself much praise OH the one hand
and much cenSure on the other. His latest
position on the liquor traffic has been dis
| cuSSed in every saloon in Minneapolis and
came up, as matter of course. in the meet
| ing of the Retail Liquor Dealers association
OH Tuesday. Among Catholic saloon men,
| of whom there are many in Minneapolis,
the feeling was very strong, and they have
not hesitated to express themselves quite
| freely. These expressions, with other mat
tiers Of the same character. have all APP
! peared in the news columns of the GLOBE.
| The following communication, coming in
the same line of news, is from the pen of
a Catholic saloonkeeper:
! CATHOLIC SALoONKEEPERS ACCOMMODATED
| To the Editor Of the Globe.
| Such is virtually the position of Minneapo-
| lis Catholic saloonkeeperS since Rev. Father
MEG olrick delivered his political stump speech
| at the Church of the immaculate Conception
! last Sunday morning. The holy father seems
| TO be trying to emulate the example of his
illustrions colleague in New York, Father
| McGynn, and may possibly obtain as much
! unhealthy notoriety, which appears to be
| the article ne is seeking. Whenever priest
begins to ignore things heavenly and dabbles
in things mundane, notoriety is his sole re-
ward, and the only reward he merits. A
priests influence on his congregation is and
should always be maintained by pure unde-
! flied and sanc!ihed moral suasion. and divine
and holy example. But when he resorts to
| force. physically or politically, to increase
that influence, he throws off his holy mask
and exhibits himself in his true light, that of
genuine buildozer, and only continual
| strf., dssension and ultimate rupture in the
| ranks Of his congregation can be the
! result Such has been the outcome
in every instance, where IL priest has obuoXi-
| Ousy interested himself IN worldly matters,
! even though his protested object was an in
! tention to better the religious condition of
/ the church. The tenets of the Catholic
church admit of saloonkeepers being active
members OF the church, and their money and
Influence nave from time immemoral helped
| TO keep it up and maintain its power fully as
! much as the money and influence of other
! classes of its members SaloonkeeperS as q
! rule are as faithful and consistent members
of the Catholic church as any other class, and
| there are many things which might better
! occupy the time and attention of the holy
father, and which would not necessitate his
| defiling the holy Office to which he has been
ordained. If we must listen to fiery political
| speeches from our priests every Sunday the
congregation will soon become well posted in
| politics and well roasted in hell.
A SALOONKEEPER.